La Chienne

Program The Remake

La Chienne
The Bitch
Dir. Jean Renoir, 1931, 93 min
In French with English subtitles

The principle of ‘remaking’ was central to Godard’s work. As he put it in relation to Breathless: ‘What I wanted was to take a conventional story and remake, but differently, everything the cinema had done.’ It is a concept he revisited almost six decades later in The Image Book, the opening section of which is titled simply ‘Remakes’. In the early 2000s, Godard expressed a desire to make a contemporary version of Jean Renoir’s La Chienne (1931), planning to cast Maurice Pialat in the role played by Michel Simon in the earlier adaptation.

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